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Speakers urge support for trade-focused charter school and attendance at NRC relicensing meeting
Summary
Public commenters urged county support for a planned charter high school focused on trade skills and encouraged attendance at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission relicensing meeting for VC Summer; no formal council action was taken on these public comments.
Two speakers during the public-comment period addressed workforce training and energy issues.
Phil Fry, who identified himself as managing director of PD Enterprises Limited and development director for the proposed Academy for Skilled Technical Trades, asked for the council's public and moral support for a tuition-free charter high school focused on trade skills. Fry said charter schools are public and receive federal and state funding but not local property-tax funding and that founders typically receive roughly "60, 65%" of traditional public-school funding. He said site selection remains the principal challenge and that the group is close to identifying a Ridgeway-area location.
"We ask for your support, not for direct county funding of our mission, but public and moral support of our efforts benefiting all the citizens of our community," Fry said.
Shirley Green, who identified herself as a Ridgeway resident in District 2, urged council members and citizens to attend a Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting on the relicensing of the VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant, scheduled the next evening at McCorley Liston School of Technology. Green said license renewal would extend operation "until 2062" and that citizens should press for consideration of alternatives, evacuation planning, siren testing and annual community meetings.
No formal action or referral to staff was recorded on these comments during the Jan. 27 meeting.
